order

name

1. The Order of the Arrow.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo. Compare typologically Russian поря́док (porjádok) (akin to ряд (rjad)).

1. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

   “put the children in age order”

   “It's arranged in order of frequency”

2. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

   “In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.”

   “In the latter portion of this period, the country was assailed by famine and pestilence - — a fearful visitation which will be noticed hereafter in its order of date, and of which it would be out of place to say more at present.”

3. The state of being well arranged.

   “The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.”

4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

   “to preserve order in a community or an assembly”

   “Order in the court!”

5. A command.

   “give an order”

   “his inability to follow orders”

6. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

   “make an order”

   “receive an online order for the new range of sunglasses”

7. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.

   “St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.”

8. An association of knights.

   “the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.”

9. Any group of people with common interests.
10. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.

    “The Order of Propitious Clouds is a civilian order that can be awarded to Taiwan citizens or foreign nationals. It is divided into a total of nine "classes" or grades, of which the Special Grand Cordon is the highest. Pelosi said she was particularly honored to receive the award from Tsai -- "a woman president in one of the freest societies in the world."”

11. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

    “The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.”

    “Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.”

12. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.

    “the higher or lower orders of society”

    “talent of a high order”

13. An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.

    “There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.”

    “to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest”

14. The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
15. The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. Scale: size or scope.

    “on another order”

17. A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

    “a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter”

18. The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
19. The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).

    “1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222, In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x − l)m.”

    “For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd prime order.”

20. The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).

    “The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element A of G#61;#92;mathit#123;GL#125;(d,q) on average using O(d³#92;mathsf#123;log#125;#92;q) field operations, assuming that qⁱ-1 has been factorised for i#92;led.”

    “1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15, If Δ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of Δ. The order of an element a∈Δ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer n such that aⁿ=1_Δ. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem. Theorem 1.10 Let Δ be a finite group. (i) The order of an element a∈Δ divides the order |Δ| of the group. (ii) If a prime number p divides |Δ|, then there exists an element a∈Δ of order p.”

21. The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
22. A partially ordered set.
23. The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
24. The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.

    “The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#43;3#43;1#61;6.”

25. The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.

    “The quadratic polynomial ax²#43;bx#43;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero.”

26. A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.

    “I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo. Compare typologically Russian поря́док (porjádok) (akin to ряд (rjad)).

1. To set in some sort of order.

   “We need to order them alphabetically.”

2. To arrange, set in proper order.

   “The books in the shelf need ordering.”

3. To issue a command to; to charge.

   “to order troops to advance”

   “He ordered me to leave.”

4. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

   “You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.”

   “to order groceries”

5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

   “persons presented to be ordered deacons”